Sofia Boutella became known as a dancer before she started in acting roles. She has amazing flexibility, and she can do her own stunt work, which is extremely important in movies today.
Posted on 06/18/2017 6:56:09 PM PDT by RArtfulogerDodger
I happened to stumble across this movie last night, and watched it. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an 84%. I hated it but what do I know?
This is a really dumb, bad, plotless movie, stuffed to the warp nacelles with gratuitous CGi gone wild (LOOK WHAT WE CAN DO!) I mean, it was a commercial for CGi.
It is replete with terrible, embarrassing “aliens” makeup, bad acting, terrible cinematography, awful lines, and just plain stupid jumping around.
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They haven’t made a good Star Trek movie yet. That includes Khan which was a little better than most.
I watched an episode last night, “The Menagerie” which was remarkable considering they rehashed it from the original pilot.
Never trust a Vulcan.
Saw “Mad Max: Fury Road” again on TV the other day.
Watch that and cleanse your pallet. Lots of practical effect and very little CGI.
(Not to mention the beautiful Charlize Theron.)
Did a little googling and found out that there was a black and white (called “Black and Chrome”) silent edition released but only on Blu-Ray. Sounds intriguing.
In the meantime, this fan video will have to do:
Mad Max: Fury Road Black & Chrome Edition (Re-Edit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpeLsI7yJVA
Was it good? I don’t know. I fell asleep.
It was truly terrible, and I do like the new cast, but after #2, it really went downhill.
The blatant homosexual “marriage” stuff also was not needed.
Pine does a good job on Kirk.
Karl Urban has McCoy down.
Simon Pegg is pretty good as Scotty.
Zoe Saldana makes Uhura a b***ch. She’s hot, but that’s it.
Lastly, Quinto as Spock is AWFUL.
Even George Takei came out against making the new Sulu gay. He said it was not what Roddenberry had in mind.
Turns out some homosexuals have at least the tiniest bit of common sense.
Right. That was awful.
And how about the interminable long "Captain-Kirk-does-Evel-Knievel" scene? It felt like it lasted half the movie!
The moment I saw Kirk hop on that dirt bike, I knew that the Star Trek franchise had officially—and probably permanently—jumped the shark...
Sofia Boutella became known as a dancer before she started in acting roles. She has amazing flexibility, and she can do her own stunt work, which is extremely important in movies today.
It really was bad. The first two were pretty good in the reboot. But #3 was just dumb. Instead of exploring the reboot potential and showing how things could be different in an alternate universe they wasted the movie with a stupid plot. And Kirk driving that motorcycle around for what seemed like hours was super stupid. It’s like they said...we have to have extreme sports in here to appeal to the young crowd....
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All true. The Menageri was way advanced for the time. It had to have been around 1965.
Some of my best friends are Vulcans
Charlize is a POS Liberal, but, yes, Mad Max was way ahead of its time.
No it stunk.
It began the long lingering slide into terminal obsolescence when the proto-social justice warriors of the late Eighties and early Nineties made The Next Generation a vehicle for political correctness. And then Bergman and Bragga got hold of the franchise. The only reason Deep Space Nine was remarkable was because it was competing with Babylon 5 for best current sci-fi series and for once Trek embraced capitalism and became better for it. But after that, it was downhill. Enterprise began with a load of promise but Bergman and Bragga dropped that ball.
Then came the 2009 Star Trek helmed by JJ Abrams. And it made Trek AWESOME again. But then came Star Trek Into Darkness: a film so rife with problems that it makes Insurrection and Nemesis downright brilliant.
I didn't see Beyond. The marketing made too big a deal of the gay marriage. Apparently many others were put off by it also.
It's dead, Jim. Star Trek had fifty years and for the most part it was good. Time to let it go. Let it be an artifact of its time, just as previous eras had Roy Rogers and Flash Gordon serials.
I kind of noticed the homo stuff. It doesn;t bother me but i have having it rammed down my throat and up my butt (jokes intended).
Quinto as Spock was mesmerising the firt time but now the way he does it and the lines stink
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